Ivor Gurney

EnglishAugust 28, 1890 – December 26, 1937Poetry

English poet and composer who was gassed in World War I and spent his last fifteen years in a mental asylum. His poems about Gloucestershire and the Western Front are quietly remarkable.

Works

Severn and SommeEnglish poet's first collection merging pastoral landscape with wartime experience
War's EmbersEnglish poet's verses processing trauma and aftermath of World War One service
Collected PoemsEnglish poet's complete poems exploring nature, war, and spiritual endurance

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